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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






2. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






3. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






4. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






5. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






6. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






7. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






8. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






9. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






10. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






11. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






12. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






13. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






14. A three-line stanza.






15. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






16. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






17. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






18. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






19. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






20. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






21. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






22. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






23. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






24. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






25. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






26. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






27. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






28. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






29. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






30. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






31. The dictionary meaning of a word.






32. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






33. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






34. A poem that tells a story.






35. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






36. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






37. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






38. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






39. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






40. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






41. A short saying with a moral.






42. A strong pause within a line.






43. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






44. A four line stanza in a poem.






45. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






46. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






47. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






48. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






49. The person who 'tells' the story.






50. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.